Stay You

Doing things to make you happy

And they do the opposite of what I intended

Try to get through while respecting your punishment

I am living my life and doing your bidding

I fall on my face and you don't offer an ounce of pity

But, I know I must stay me no matter what I get put through

I will always have a smile wherever I go

While bad times happen I will frown but the second that moments through

I will attempt to turn it upside down

I am not holding back tears and burying them down like a crater

Nor putting them to the side to save them for later

I am only no longer letting negativity put me down

Trying to change who I am and bring me to the ground

They say I have no respect or care just like any other

However it isn’t true but they say it  because you smother,

Smother me with storms trying to knock me over

And you try to make this perfectly straight city I made spiral down

 

Please stop!

 

I know you don't realize it, but your actions surround me with this cloud of black

Which Makes me wonder if the other side is in lack

Lack of this hate and unwantedness towards me

maybe they only want me at my highest, and a happy face to see

Or will they not push me and let me reach my full potential too

Well I have so much love and kindness and no one to give it to

These are the ways some people fight

When they want to be themselves and are afraid of the other side.

 

This poem is about: 
Me
My family
Our world

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